Lillian gently knocked on Cam's door. No answer. She was tempted to speak but her words stuck at the back of her throat.

"Liar," Cam spoke behind the door. "Everything is not okay."

"You don't know the future."

"I know that I'm going to marry Laney."

His words pierced her heart so deeply that she thought it would shut off completely.

"You're going to marry her?" Lillian asked. She look puzzled at her shaking hands.

"Yeah. Beside, you said we would make a perfect couple, right?"

She did say that. But why did she? What were her reasons for saying those things she didn't mean? Did she mean it? Did she not?

"That's true. Then I wish you two the best…"

There was a dead air flowing around their atmosphere.

"You're so heartless."

Lillian laid her head down on her desk. She let out a big sigh that echoed throughout the room. Suddenly, the classroom's door slammed open which startled Lillian.

"Lillian! Have you seen Cam?" Ash yelled.

"No. Why?"

"Well… when I came to the mansion to get him, he was gone. He turned his cell phone off, there's no way to contact him."

"Did he go to the hospital?"

"We checked there, too. There's no sight of him!"

Another person stormed into the room.

"Ash! What do you mean Cam is missing?!" Laney snapped.

"It means he can't be found, Laney."

"This isn't a joke! Why did Cam go missing?!"

"I don't know! That's why I'm asking Lillian!"

"Why are you asking her?"

"Please, stop arguing. I will look for him after school if he doesn't return by then," Lillian interrupted.

"You stay out of this. What did I tell you before? I said you better not touch him or talk to him. Beside, he's my fiancé, there's nothing you can do—" Laney warned but Ash cut her off.

"That's enough! Laney, do not make me angry. You are being selfish and ignorant. Don't let your pitiful obsession take control over you. You were never like this. Never."

Laney's face turned bright red from embarrassment. She ran out of the classroom with her hands covering her face.

"That's a little bit too harsh on her. She can't help it if she's in love… she can't help it if she's being truthful to herself. She's honest, unlike me…" Lillian said. She forced a smile and said, "I'll look for Cam. I will sure to find him for you and Laney."

"Thanks, Lillian."

After the final bell rang, Lillian rushed out of school in searching for Cam. She had a feeling where he could be. It was a weird skill but she could sometimes predict where he was. Her feet raced to a noisy market place. She squeezed herself through the crowd that was filled on the street.

"E-excuse me," Lillian apologized. "S-sorry!"

She stumbled out of the mob and began to look for the location Cam might be at. Lillian followed the river flow at the bottom on the road. There was someone. A figure of a person staring blankly at the pink flowers by the river bank. Lillian's footsteps sped up to that person. She crossed her fingers, hoping it would be Cam. She paused. There he was.

"Cam!" Lillian yelled as she tried to catch her breath. "Everyone was looking for you!"

Cam was silent. He only focused on the pink Carnation that swayed to the movement of the wind.

"I wonder why they can't find me," Cam muttered.

"No one really walk by here even though there's a crowded market nearby."

"Then how did you know I was here?"

"It was a good prediction."

Lillian sat next to Cam and stared at the sun that was slowly sinking in the distance. They hadn't say anything to each other until Cam spoke, "This place is a sad place. It's where my mother died..."

Lillian widen her eyes at Cam's words. "Your mother…?"

"Mrs. Kamiru is just my step-mother. My real mother died when I was five and I was the reason for her death."

Cam looked up at the cloudy sky that gradually getting gray.

"She was beautiful with her blonde hair and her hazel eyes. She always carried a kind smile on her face to make me feel at ease. We used to live like a happy family until that one day… I remembered it clearly. My mother was holding my hand as we walked on the side of this road. My eyes caught a beautiful sight of a brilliant pink color flowers that were blooming in the bush near a river bank. Without telling my mother about it, I let go of her hand and ran across the road to explore the new plant I've found. I heard something loud like a crash behind me. I turned around. There she was, lying unconsciously on the ground. We took her to the hospital but she didn't make it." He continued telling his past. Lillian sat quietly next to him. She followed his gaze to the pink Carnations and studied their soft color.

"Her last words to me were 'Cam, I love you very much." I remembered I cried so much that I had hiccups for hours. Grandpa would try his best to make me laugh but he always failed. Father would leave me alone in the mansion while he goes out with other women. I hated pink Carnation. It brought back painful memories."

"Do you know what that flower mean, Cam?" Lillian asked.

"No. I never bothered to look up the meaning for it."

"Pink Carnation is a symbol for the love of a woman or a mother. Please don't blame yourself for the accident. Your mother loves you very much. I'm sure she will be very sad if she sees you like this."

Lillian felt a few drops of water fallen on her skin. She grabbed Cam's wrist and pulled him up.

"It's going to be raining soon. Luckily, we're near a super market. Let's go buy umbrellas!" Lillian said but Cam refused to go.

Not too soon before the sky began to pour rains on them. They stood in the middle of an empty road with no words spoken to each other. Lillian frowned when she watched the sadness in Cam's eyes grew.

"C-come on, Cam! If you stay here any longer, you'll catch a cold!"

"Then just let me be," Cam replied.

"I can't do that. Let's just return to the mansion and dry you up."

"I don't want to go there."

"Come… on…! You… can… not… be… sick!" Lillian forcefully pulled on Cam's arm with two hands but he wouldn't move one bit.

Without hesitation, Cam held her hands and pulled her closed to him. Their lips touched, for the first time. Lillian's heart was beating rapidly that she thought it might as well as popped out of her chest. She could feel the heat running up her face in the cold rain. When he let go of her, she was unable to look at him straight in the eyes.

"Y-your parents m-must be worry about you. W-we uh.. n-need to get back to the mansion," Lillian stammered. She tucked his sleeve one more time.

"You can go back. Just tell them I'm fine."

"I can't leave you alone… but if you stay out here, you'll catch a cold."

"I don't want to go back to the mansion. I want to be away from it for awhile…"

Lillian let out a big sigh and finally looked at Cam. She replied, "You're such a big baby. Do you want to stay at my house, then? It's pretty close to here."

Cam didn't answer. He only stared at the ground with a sorrowful face. Lillian let out a big sign again and held onto his arm. She decided to drag him to her house even though he didn't respond to her.

Lillian threw a pair of clothes at Cam and demanded, "Go change. The bathroom is right next to the kitchen."

Cam nodded and followed her instruction. He put on a white long sleeve shirt and a gray short. Then he walked back to the previous room as he sniffed the fabric.

"It smells nice," Cam said.

"That's my dad's . I wash my parents' clothes every week so they don't get dusty."

"Where are they?"

Lillian hesitated for a moment. She forced herself to hold back the tears that wanted to run away from her eyes.

"They died in a plane crash two years ago." She walked to Cam with a towel in her hand.

"Oh… Sorry, I didn't mean to remind you of them."

"It's okay. Now, sit down so I can dry your hair."

Lillian ruffled Cam's hair all over the place until he looked up at her. He pulled both of her hands down his shoulder so that it looks like she was hugging his neck.

"You know, I'm still very jealous when you spent the day at the amusement park with Ash. Did he say something to you?" Cam asked.

"He told me he liked me."

Cam looked at Lillian with a serious face. He squeezed her hand a little bit tighter.

"What did you say to him?"

She frowned and replied, "I think I might have hurt his feelings…"

"Why?"

Lillian let out a big sigh and drew away from Cam. She neatly folded the towel and put it on the floor.

"I told him that I didn't have that same kind of feeling because I felt like my heart decided someone else."

"Who is that someone else?"

"You sound like a detective wife or something. You keep on asking questions," Lillian curved her lip into a teasing smile.

When she stood up to put the towel away, Cam hugged her leg and stared at her with his puppy eyes.

"Why won't you tell me?"

"It's not your business of who I like," Lillian responded. She bit on her lip and forcefully shook Cam off.

"It is my business…"

"How is that so?"

"You never did respond to my confession. I want to know if I was rejected or not."

"I still can't tell you."

"Why can't you?" Cam asked. His curiosities were drowning him as Lillian hesitated to spit out her words.

"It's not right, Cam. It's… really wrong for me to even like him."

"Him…? Why is liking someone wrong? Is that a new law or something?"

"Because he's you, idiot."